"The main goal with film, or any
art form, is to impact us somehow. Whether with a gentle caress or a sledgehammer
blow, if you can be rewarded with a brief touch of the sublime, you have
been granted a true moment of understanding."

"The works that speak to me the most
- and which I think clearly influence my own work - are those that search
for exploration within the elements of exploitation. The films that manage
to validate these elements - Abel Ferrara's 'Bad Lieutenant', or Zulawski's
'Possession', to name two disparate examples - are true and rare achievements."

"One of the main goals for the trilogy
has been to express the image of the suffering face. I love the suffering
face. However, when I see the incredibly pained and haunted faces revealed
again and again by Tarkovsky and Bergman, presented with what seems an
almost ease, I clearly see I haven't yet come close to achieving one -
but I plan to keep trying." -- Douglas
Buck